Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the author of The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 (2016).

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1 Revolutionary Dreams and Early Soviet Confinement2 Building the Gulag3 Everyday Life in Stalin’s Camps4 World War II and the Zenith of the Gulag System5 The Gulag After Stalin6 Remembering the Gulag and its VictimsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

This concise history of the Gulag is the latest in Bloomsbury’s excellent Russian Shorts series … Hardy's book is unique in that it examines the contested memory of the Gulag in the post-Soviet period, in particular the role played by politicians, NGOs and survivors, and he questions how state-sponsored monuments and museums commemorating Gulag victims can coexist alongside political repression in Russia today.

Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the author of The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 (2016).

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1 Revolutionary Dreams and Early Soviet Confinement2 Building the Gulag3 Everyday Life in Stalin’s Camps4 World War II and the Zenith of the Gulag System5 The Gulag After Stalin6 Remembering the Gulag and its VictimsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

This concise history of the Gulag is the latest in Bloomsbury’s excellent Russian Shorts series … Hardy's book is unique in that it examines the contested memory of the Gulag in the post-Soviet period, in particular the role played by politicians, NGOs and survivors, and he questions how state-sponsored monuments and museums commemorating Gulag victims can coexist alongside political repression in Russia today.

Jeffrey S. Hardy is Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University, USA. He is the author of The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev's Soviet Union, 1953-1964 (2016).

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction1 Revolutionary Dreams and Early Soviet Confinement2 Building the Gulag3 Everyday Life in Stalin’s Camps4 World War II and the Zenith of the Gulag System5 The Gulag After Stalin6 Remembering the Gulag and its VictimsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

This concise history of the Gulag is the latest in Bloomsbury’s excellent Russian Shorts series … Hardy's book is unique in that it examines the contested memory of the Gulag in the post-Soviet period, in particular the role played by politicians, NGOs and survivors, and he questions how state-sponsored monuments and museums commemorating Gulag victims can coexist alongside political repression in Russia today.